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>Source code at Github

This is why it's not fun anymore. Seriously, go look at all that crap you have to learn AND understand AND debug, ETC...

The reason all this crap was "fun" before was because it was so damn easy. :(

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You totally don't have to do any of this to make this page work, I'm pretty sure all that js code is completely unnecessary...

Is it possible she is of a generation that really has no experience coding a website by hand using no frameworks or any fancy code?

“The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

- Socrates

That is on purpose, to satire the overkill on many websites.

Well if it was meant as satire, I don't feel it was successful. If it was meant as an example to replicate, I don't feel it was successful.

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